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This blog is an art history experiment for our Italian Renaissance travel course. We hope that you, our visitors, will not only take some time to read about what we are studying, but will ALSO feel free to make comments or ask us questions...especially after we see (most of) these things in person. As we travel, we will offer personal reflections on our experiences. After we fly out on the 17th, follow us as we visit Rome (May 18-20), Florence (20-24), and Venice (24-25). We return on Thursday, May 26...just in time for the holiday weekend.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Masaccio, The Brancacci Chapel - St. Peter Healing with His Shadow

Masaccio - St. Peter Healing with His Shadow
1424-25 or 1427-1428

  • Found in the Church of the Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence
  • It is guessed that Masolino received the first commission solely and at a later date Masaccio joined him in the works
  • The frescoes were dated between 1424 and 1425 or 1427 and 1428
  • All of the frescoes have to do with Saint Peter except two, which deal with the garden of Eden
  • Would have not even been thought of before cast shadows were actually used in paintings
  • There is a portrait of Donatello included in the painting, the old man with the blue dress on
  • It has been suggested that the young beardless boy in the painting was Masaccio himself
  • The Fresco took 10 days to complete


- Ry

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